But let's not be distracted by fairy tales about how the sky is falling.
Perhaps the Monday Morning Quarterbacking and cries that the sky is falling are a bit too rash.
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"The sky is falling a little bit, but we don't need to run around screaming, " says Mr. Fitzgerald.
Consider the opposite: the individual who goes around muttering that the sky is falling at the slightest setback.
And when everyone says the sky is falling, you take your money out.
Yes, big corporate money likes a good old hard landing, the sky is falling, the housing bubble is popping like a Fourth of July gone terribly wrong, and manufacturing fleeing to build in Alabama story.
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P. is the party of calamity, " argues New York Times columnist Charles Blow: "The sky is always falling.
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There is little money to be made by reporting that the sky is not falling.
Tweetbot developer Paul Haddad has already tweeted that "the sky is not falling...the cap is pretty huge and we aren't going anywhere", and we'll undoubtedly hear from others soon.
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In other words, why should we all start running around and screaming like Chicken Little that the marriage sky is falling when marriage seems central to American culture and values?
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Besides being off base, the sky-is-falling theory portends two troubling outcomes.
If we are to believe all the sky-is-falling claims of environmental activist groups, it is time for them to put their money where their mouth is and support natural gas production.
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Unfortunately, since the early Eighties, the weather media has felt the need to manufacture weather horrors to match the real ones, like Katrina, and today has a big problem of the Chicken Little sky is falling variety.
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Orb and Goldencents are at 7-1, while the longshot is Falling Sky at 36-1.
But Americans appear indifferent to the "sky-is-falling" rhetoric out of Washington with no congressional deal in sight ahead of Friday's deadline to avert the mandatory austerity.
If you're one of the lucky folks who live in or around the yellow area pictured on the map (it's a map of the upper 48 United States), grab the closest gadget with GPS, your EV-DO-sportin' laptop, and the keys to your pickup, 'cause money is literally falling out of the sky all around you 24-hours-a-day.
As cynical as the treatment of national defense has been, though, we, the people, should be feeling even more cynical about the hysterical, sky-is-falling rhetoric about sequestration.
The sky, Dear Chicken Little, is not falling.
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The ATV is also used to drive the 400-tonne orbital complex higher into the sky to stop it falling back to Earth.
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